BrooklynMiddleSchoolLibrary - Reformers of the 1800s

Find text, audio, video and primary sources on the 1800s.

Contains information about and images from the 1800s.

General Sites

The History Channel
http://www.history.com/topics.do?type=topics&subject=ushistory

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/listguid.html

Acitivists &Reformers- Douglass, Stanton & Truth
http://www.americasstory.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists

Biogrpahies at Information Please
http://www.infoplease.com/people.html

Encyclopedia Britannica - 300 Women Who Changed the World
http://search.eb.com/women

Utopian Communities

Robert Owen and the New Harmony Society
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/Cities/newharmony.html

Helping the Disabled

Thomas Gallaudet
http://www.learningtogive.org/papers/index.asp?bpid=98

Women's Rights

Susan B. Anthony
http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/biography.shtml

Votes for Women; the Struggle for Women's Suffrage
images from the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/076_vfw.html

"Not for Ourselves Alone" PBS
http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/

Abolition
The Abolitionist Movement - Library of Congress
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3.html

Temperance
Information Please
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0848122.html

Women's Education
About.com
Mary Lyon & Mount Holyoke College